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Question: What is WESTERN strategic thought? Chinese strategic thought suggests that it exists in opposition to something else. 24.90.197.246 11:05, 30 November 2005 (UTC)

It would be interesting to start a page about that. Does anyone want to make a page about this? You would have to have sub-divisions for various groups within the West though.Nizhny

there is some problems with the given "strategic thought". it almost complete forgot about diplomacy which is view as highly important in chinese thinking.
IMO, due to the lack of hard power, chinese are actively using soft power to reach out to south east asia and korea. exploiting the failures of US in these places (US didn't want to engage ASEAN due to Myanmar, US sided with Japan and sidelined korea on dispute & north korean issues; notablely since bush became president!). basically, china see itself as "the beggar", and can't be choosy about it's allies. whoever US dump get pick up by china without fail! =) automatically US displeasure with it as it would nullify the pressure US want to apply. and this could prove to be dangerous for china which desires to "laid low" and grow without eyes staring at it! Akinkhoo 19:24, 17 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] China's Goal

I thought the first half of the 20th century, China was trying to become a to become an independent Great Power. Now that it has been already accomplished, isn't her main goal to become the "Middle Kingdom" again? 24630 23:05, 30 September 2006 (UTC)

China is referred as trying to become a great power. Instead, shouldn't China be referred to becoming a superpower? I believe China already is a great power.


as of now (2007), china still see itself as only a regional power and not a GREAT power. being a GREAT power, suggest the ability to interfere in world affairs (the levels of: Uk, France, Russia) which it can't do due to the lack of power projection and not having full heavy industrial independence.
as of now, china's goal is to bid for more time, while china has a strong economy now, it doesn't have a key characteristic of a great power. a complete range of heavy industries that could supplies all the part the military needs. the engine department is still lacking and may need another couple of years to develop a more acceptable (non-substandard) product. else another embargo = no more jet fighter/destroyer production. the dependency make any outright political move difficult.
another cause for delay in achieving great power status is because of the 'unification' issue; largely china is forced to exhaust it's political influences on winning support for it's claim. until it's internal issue are resolved will china be.... hmmm scary... Akinkhoo 19:12, 17 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] The balancing Act

The relationship of Russia, China, India & US is particularly interesting to me. naturally, China and India APPEARS to be rivals. and US hope to use India as counterweight for China. Russia also want to have India around to balance things (since it population is in decline) but Russia can't afford to lose China as an ally (who else can afford to buy expensive S300 and fund R&D?), so it has to remain fairly neutral but tries to be more supportive in India more than China. (traditionally so anyway) India is quietly "neutral" to all this... it is afterall, enjoying "cheap" support from all without doing much work! however, neither China nor India want to be too much of a rivalry as to prevent others from benefiting from conflict. Akinkhoo 19:47, 17 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] This is not a good article at all

But instead of altering it myself or marking it for speedy deletion, I added the warnings at the top and a list of See Also links at the bottom to help balance out this propaganda piece. BillyTFried (talk) 18:53, 10 March 2008 (UTC)